Dance party: The Seahawks locker room during lightning delay

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Dark rainclouds loom over CenturyLink Field during a lightning delay Sunday. (Joshua Trujillo/seattlepi.com)

When the lightning struck and the Seahawks retreated to their locker room after a slow start to Sunday’s big game, they took the weather delay as an opportunity to refresh their minds and their bodies.

Quarterback Russell Wilson, who opened 0-for-7 through the air and got sacked right before the delay, washed off his uncharacteristically subpar play by taking a shower.

James Carpenter, center, and the Seahawks leave the field after play was suspended due to a lightning storm Sunday at CenturyLink Field. (Jordan Stead/seattlepi.com)

“I think the thing that we really did a good job of is,” Wilson said after the game, “once that lightning strike hit and we were in the locker room for probably about an hour … we just kinda revamped. I personally took a shower — just kinda restart my mind, restart everything to really get out there and feel, ‘OK, it’s a new game.'”

But not everyone handles pressure the same way. Particularly not cornerback Richard Sherman, who was one of those who blasted tunes and got a dance party going.

“We listened to a lot of music. We got hyped,” Sherman said. “I partied with the D-line a little bit. We did some dance moves and had a good time.”

Whatever each of the Seahawks did during the hour-long break, it seems to have worked. When they re-took the field with a little left in the first quarter, they looked different: more energized, more electrified.

“It was a great opportunity for us — I’m sure (the 49ers) were doing the same thing,” head coach Pete Carroll said. “We did all kinds of things in all phases where it was needed. We coached throughout the time other than when music was blaring in the locker room.”